The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-02-20

that he would not publish the detaila of 1t;
and the condition is respected. The figures
he said were Of course approximate. The
actual expenditure always over shoots the
estimated expenditure, and the outlay
would probably be larger. On supply OF
80, DOC. 900 gallons per day, the cost to the
company of the delivery of l 100000 gal
Ions Of water would be SAT SO. This esti-
mate of the cost per ], 200, 900 included, of
course, the natural income of the capital
invested in the plant The more contracts
the company makes the lower of course
will be the rate of cost per 1000 600 gal
Ions to the company audit hopes to make
G ntracts enough to reduce the cost to
minimum. and leave room for profit. The
offer to supply the city at $3.50 is, he
declares remarkably lew one. New York's
water supply costs her, with the income of
the capital invested 500 per million gallons.
Hoboken pays the FL tckensack Water Com
pany SIS. Bayonne pays Jersey City 1913,
and Harrison pays her $50. He had not at
hand tables showing the cost of service in
other cities, but he is having them pre-
pared He admitted that if the citv takes
its water from him 1t will cost her STAG, 900
more than now, on 100000 gallons per
day basis, but Hoboken would be glad to
get water from her if she could get decent
the Hackensack Company supplies and
the increased consumption, and other con-
tracts would make up the difference Then
besides there would be no bonding of a city
already heavily bonded.
stIll lay wager, said ex-Assemblyman
Gator, when the reporter saw him, that
Jersey City will be bankrupt within three
years If she accepts the Bartlett offer bat
/ consider his scheme dead already. 1t
never can 60 through our City Boards. 1t
won't work there. As for Bartlett's Com
pany having contracted with the
PAtei son Society, that is false AS
late as Wednesday or Thursday, Bob
Hopper, one of the Society's counsel, told
ME that no such contract had been
made. Nor do | believe that he or bis
associates have bought the land they pre-
tend 10 have bought at such enormous
OUTLAWS for storage purposes. Storage,
forsoothi Do we want stored water to
drink? Water that lies still in reservoirs,
exposed to Augustus suns, is not fit to be
taken into the stomach. 1t would be a
breeder of disease. Water is kept pure
by its motion and the exposure VIII in
motion to healthful atmospheric iDf1u-
ences. If it be run in pipes to a reservoir
it will stagnate. as it lays unused day in
duU Udy OuG, LII tue uChb VI d LhtOouul-
mer sun. The water the Hackelsack
Water Company runs through its pipes
and then keeps in its reservoir for Ho-
boken's use is getting more and more
unwholsome every day. A green scum
formed on lis surface SO thick that it could
be cut wit knife. AS for these water
rights of the Paterson Society that he de-
clares to be so expensive, can show you
that we can condemn them for about half a
million. Their income now is $4,000 per
year, and because of the increased use of
steam in the mills it is becoming smaller
each year. But supp, Sc that it stands at
5000 when we are ready to condemn.
That, capitalized at five per cent, is
81 900. 600 for their water franchise. In
New jersey the legal rate is six per cent.
That brings the capital represented by
$50, 1000 annual iuc0me down to $3.50, 600
Then, in addition to all that, we are not
confined to the Passaic watershed for our
water supply. If We don't like the Pas
salc water shed, OF If it is too expensive
to get, we can go to the Morris Canal
Company for its water privileges. We
need not bargain with either as though it
was the only owner of water rights we can
bargain with, and we can play one against
the other until we have got them down to
the hard bottom"
Finance Commissioned DATE says that
for $500, 900 the Passaic water can be pur-
iii d so as 10 be serviceabIe and sweet by
building sewers to take the sewage from
the river.